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Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.Collection: Happiness
Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.Collection: Happiness
Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.Collection: Happiness
To lead happy, contented, peaceful lives, remember all the good times you share with others, forget all the good you do for others.Collection: Happiness
We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.Collection: Happiness
Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.Collection: Happiness
The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.Collection: Happiness
We have been accustomed to thinking that we have to get something from outside us in order to be happy, but in truth it works the other way: we must learn to contact our inner source of happiness and satisfaction and flow it outward to share with others-not because it is virtuous to do so, but because it really feels good.Collection: Happiness
It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.Collection: Happiness
The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.Collection: Happiness
The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.Collection: Happiness
There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.Collection: Happiness
It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.Collection: Happiness
Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.Collection: Happiness
We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.Collection: Happiness
The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.Collection: Happiness
A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in miseryCollection: Happiness
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.Collection: Happiness
Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.Collection: Happiness
It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).Collection: Happiness
The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes; failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we bear.Collection: Happiness
Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.Collection: Happiness
we're all golden sunflowers inside.Collection: Happiness
Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.Collection: Happiness
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.Collection: Happiness
If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.Collection: Happiness
Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.Collection: Happiness
Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.Collection: Happiness
Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.Collection: Happiness
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.Collection: Happiness
It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.Collection: Happiness
Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodnessCollection: Happiness
Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.Collection: Happiness
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.Collection: Happiness
We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.Collection: Happiness
Happiness is a hardy annual.Collection: Happiness
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.Collection: Happiness
Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.Collection: Happiness
I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.Collection: Happiness
Embrace the glorious mess that you areCollection: Happiness
Surfeits of happiness are fatal.Collection: Happiness
To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'T is folly to be wise.Collection: Happiness
Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow.Collection: Happiness
No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.Collection: Happiness
How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.Collection: Happiness
Live with the objective of being happy.Collection: Happiness
An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.Collection: Happiness
Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.Collection: Happiness